Small programming tricks that quietly supercharge your productivity

Engineering productivity often hinges on small, self-contained nuggets of knowledge—like using fzf for fuzzy history search, SELECT without FROM, or git log -S to find when a string was added or removed. The author shares a collection of such tricks and argues that sharing one per day on Slack can be a high-leverage habit for senior engineers.

I think there are some nuggets of knowledge that are particularly valuable and don’t require a lot of supporting mental infrastructure.

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2026-09-16